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TermDefinitionPlate tectonics The theory that Earth’s lithosphere is made up of large plates that slowly move over time, creating the major landformsSeafloor spreading a process where the earth’s tectonic plates slide away from each other, creating new oceanic crust.Convergent boundarytwo tectonic plates collide, creating mountains or trenches Divergent boundarytwo tectonic plates move apart, creating earthquakes, volcanoes or new oceanic crust Transform plate boundary two tectonic plates slide past each other horizontally Trenchlong, narrow depression on the ocean floor that forms at the boundary of a tectonic plate, where one plate is pushed under another Rift Valley area where the earth’s crust is splitting apart Rift: split or breakValleylow point Mid-ocean ridge:underwater chain of volcanoes that runs through the middle of the ocean Subduction zone one tectonic plate slides under another plate at a convergent boundary